SHADRACH HOGAN, JR.

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Shadrach HOGAN, Jr. was born in Anson Co., NC, the namesake of his father. Following the lead of their Gibson in-laws, Shadrach Hogan Sr. and his unmarried children migrated to opening lands to the southwest in the post-Revolutionary years. They eventually settled in 1791 on Clarke's Creek, Wilkes Co., GA and moved over to Lincoln Co. about 1795. In Jan. 1801, Shadrach, Jr. bought a sorrel filly from his father's estate, and on Feb. 1, 1802, he acknowledged receipt of $68.00 from the estate.

His marriage to the eighteen-year-old Frances "Franky" DALE probably occurred in Jackson Co, GA at the DALE/DEAL home on Candler's Creek west of present-day Maysville. Her father, William, had settled on the site in 1796. From his first residence in Jackson Co. to sometime after 1810, Shadrach was living as a tenant on either his brother John's or his father-in-law's land. Sometime before 1820, he was deeded 202 acres of the DEAL/DALE land (the surname, during this period, was spelled alternately). He drew 490 acres in Irwin Co. from the Land Lottery of 1820. Eventually, he turned this land over to his son William (1829). Apparently, he was deeded other parcels from the Deal farm, on Candler's Creek at the Oconee River, by his brother-in-law Stephen Deal prior to 1830. His mother-in-law, Jemima DALE, was still living as of the 1832 Gold (Land) Lottery list and is presumed to be the 'female' enumerated at 'over eighty years of age', in the Shadrach HOGAN household in the FC of 1840. From 1810 on, his closest significant land-owning neighbor was Hardy STRICKLAND (1782-1872) who occupied a tract of the old DEAL land plus some other parcels on Candler's Creek.

In the 1843 tax list, John HOGAN (b. 1807) is listed as 'agent' for his father Shadrach, Jr.'s estate. From sometime during the 1840's until the deaths of Frances and Shadrach Hogan in the 1860's, their farm was worked first by son-in-law Micah WILSON and later, also, by son-in-law Samuel T. LOGGINS. Grandson-in-law James ELLISON also assisted in managing the HOGAN farm after 1854, and apparently inherited most of the old farm after the death of his wife's grandparents.

In 1827, under the "School System Act", Shadrach was made an original commissioner of Burns District of Jackson, Co., along with James HAMPTON, John WILSON (father of Micah) and Rev. Ambrose YARBOROUGH. During the years prior to 1850, Shadrach, Jr. cultivated a close friendship with William Duncan MARTIN (1771-1854) who remembered his friend and his daughter, Amanda, in his 1852 will. Mr. MARTIN was a bachelor of considerable means who had lived in Jefferson and was the benefactor of the Martin School* in that town. One could suppose Amanda had been a teacher or student there.

[*Founded 1818, formerly the Jackson County Academy, the Martin Institute was dedicated to its major patron in 1859, five years after Mr. Martin's death. The Institute was razed by an arsonist the night of Jan. 13, 1942: "Historical Notes on Jackson Co.", Ga. by Frary Elrod, 1967.]

Shadrach and Frances died during the Civil War years, exact dates unknown. There was no military action in their immediate vicinity and General Sherman's march also bypassed this area. Their farm was later occupied by James M. ELLISON (1857-1932), James H. FREEMAN (whose wife was a LOGGINS), the VOYLES family (from 1907 to c1935), the Will WARD family and Stanley CARR (1899-1965), who converted the old Hogan place to tree farming during the 1950's. It has since been sold to Kraft Industries.

Nothing remains of the old Hogan place, as the house burned in the 1960's and the foundations were bulldozed. The "Hogan (slave) cabin", which is about 12' square, inside dimensions, sat about fifty feet from the site of the Hogan home. About 1970, the cabin was resettled along the Maysville-Commerce Highway. Later, it was refurbished by the owner, Bill Smith, and removed to a small fishpond he had constructed on his farm. This structure was called the 'Hogan cabin' as far back as present memory permits. Apparently, it was one of the few surviving outbuildings contained on the old farm.

The only remnant of the Shadrach HOGAN farm left is a sylvan cemetery with four primitive box tombs and dolman-like sunken graves scattered over a forty-square foot area. This 'Dale/Hogan Cemetery' is located about 300 yards from the site of the family home south of Deadwyler Road (west of Maysville, east of Candler's Creek). Two particularly large hand-hewn stones, carved with a traditionally curved head, do not have any inscriptions on their surfaces. They are about ten inches thick and created out of indigenous living stone, as opposed to marble or granite.

Those known to be buried here are: Shadrach, Jr. and Frances HOGAN, three of their daughters: Mary (CASEY), Amanda (LOGGINS), and a daughter who died young, name unknown; and son John (d. 1889). Others buried there might be William DALE/DEAL, Sr., his wife Jemima, William DEAL, Jr. (d. 1815) and probably some of their daughters. There are many graves, children included, in the cemetery proper, and possibly some slaves on the periphery. (The U.S. Geological Survey maps, which usually include all formal cemeteries, do not, however, designate this graveyard on Maysville/Apple Valley Quadrangles, dated 1964.)

Page last updated 10/20/2007

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